WHO's health risk assessment of extremely low frequency electric fields
| Autor: | M. H. Repacholi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Radiation
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology Health risk assessment business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Commission Health outcomes World health Childhood leukaemia Environmental health Radiological weapon Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Extremely low frequency Radiation protection business |
| Zdroj: | Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 106:297-299 |
| ISSN: | 1742-3406 0144-8420 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006363 |
| Popis: | The World Health Organization (WHO), the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), WHO's scientific collaborating centres (including the UK's National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB)) and over 50 participating Member States are participants of WHO's International EMF Project. As part of WHO's health risk assessment process for extremely low frequency fields (ELF), this workshop was convened by NRPB to assist WHO in evaluating the potential health impacts of electrical currents and fields induced by ELF in molecules, cells, tissues and organs of the body. This paper describes the process by which WHO will conduct its health risk assessment. WHO is also trying to provide information on why exposure to ELF magnetic fields seems to be associated with an increased incidence of childhood leukaemia. Are there mechanisms that could lead to this health outcome or does the epidemiological evidence incorporate biases or other factors that need to be further explored? |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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